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- [prep]
- /prɛp/
- /prep/
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- [prep]
- /prɛp/
Definitions of prep word
- noun prep preparatory school. 1
- noun prep a preliminary or warm-up activity or event; trial run: The race is a good prep for the Kentucky Derby. 1
- noun prep preparation: dealer prep on the car included. 1
- noun prep the act of preparing a patient for a medical or surgical procedure. 1
- adjective prep preparatory: a prep school. 1
- adjective prep involving or used for preparation: the mortuary's prep room. 1
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Origin of prep
First appearance:
before 1860 One of the 29% newest English words
First recorded in 1860-65; by shortening
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Prep
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
prep popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 88% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
prep usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for prep
verb prep
- deck out — If a person or thing is decked out with or in something, they are decorated with it or wearing it, usually for a special occasion.
- fit out — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
- gear up — Machinery. a part, as a disk, wheel, or section of a shaft, having cut teeth of such form, size, and spacing that they mesh with teeth in another part to transmit or receive force and motion. an assembly of such parts. one of several possible arrangements of such parts in a mechanism, as an automobile transmission, for affording different relations of torque and speed between the driving and the driven machinery, or for permitting the driven machinery to run in either direction: first gear; reverse gear. a mechanism or group of parts performing one function or serving one purpose in a complex machine: steering gear.
- get ready — the state or condition of being ready.
- get set — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
adj prep
- inductive — of, relating to, or involving electrical induction or magnetic induction.
noun prep
- assignments — Plural form of assignment.
- coursework — written or oral work completed by a student within a given period, which is assessed as an integral part of an educational course
- homework — schoolwork assigned to be done outside the classroom (distinguished from classwork).
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